This curriculum is designed to enhance your visit to Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf. It contains information about the exhibition, resources and lessons related to the Holocaust and Mein Kampf, as well as several lessons that can be used to as pre- or post-visit activities. A CD of images from the exhibition is included for your classroom use. While ideally this curriculum is a three-part lesson (pre-visit, tour, and post-visit), we hope you will adapt the materials to meet the needs of your class. These lessons are written for the teacher with handouts for students at the end of this document.

This curriculum explores the origins and effects of Mein Kampf on pre-war Germany and beyond. It lays groundwork for students to consider the impact of the book and theories of eugenics on the Holocaust. It then introduces Our Struggle as an example of a communal, artistic response to the ideas and consequences of this book. Finally, the curriculum asks students to consider parallels between the Holocaust and other genocides, with a focus on the situation in Darfur. The curriculum examines the Holocaust as it relates to Mein Kampf, eugenics, and the Our Struggle exhibition, but is not a comprehensive history of the Holocaust curriculum. 

Contents

• Introduction to the Exhibition Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
• Lesson 1: Mein Kampf in Context
• Lesson 2: Art as a Form of Civic Engagement and Social Protest: Our Struggle in Context
• Lesson 3: Connections to Contemporary Genocide
• Glossary and Chronology of the Holocaust and Modern Genocide
• Chronology of Mein Kampf
• Student Handouts

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf has been organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum with the generous support of the Jewish Community Federation Holocaust Memorial Education Fund, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

School and Teacher Programs are made possible by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.